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WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".

Category: Organizing

An Organizer’s Tool for Zoning Fights

Organizing October 23, 2024 by Chief Organizer

            Marble Falls      Recently, I talked to Professor Sara Bronin with the Regional and Local Planning Department at Cornell University about a project she is organizing called the Zoning Atlas.  She told me there were 30,000 zoning jurisdictions in the United States, and the objective of the atlas is to collect them all and …

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Have Mass Protests Lost Their Power?

Organizing Protests September 23, 2024 by Chief Organizer

            New Orleans       I’m a fan of Zeynep Tufekci, a professor specializing in studying social movements and more recently a sometimes columnist for the New York Times.  Regularly, she has been spot-on in her analysis of the real factors behind movements.  She doesn’t worship at the throne of social media as a substitute for …

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Accountability is in the Counting

Organizing Peoples’ Daily News August 6, 2024 by Chief Organizer

Marble Falls       Virtually, every day, rain or shine, the Peoples’ Daily News has to be written and produced for the “voice of the people” stations in New Orleans and Little Rock. Recently, there was a brief squib about the decline of traffic enforcement and what that meant for both increased fatalities and perhaps a …

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